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I thought that Syria was off the hook.
But in the last week, Iran and Syria announced an alliance. And all fingers are pointing to Syria about the assasination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister (although they haven't been proven to be guilty.)
Also, there is real apparent progress being made between Israel and Palestine. Its no secret that Syria's government has absolutely no vested interest in a real peace being reached there. After all, Syria is one of those governments that uses their state controlled media to cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so that the Syrian government's incompetence is deflected.
And now is strong language from President Bush.
Credibility may produce an ironically peaceful solution. Is the concept that President Bush might use American military power to overthrow an Arab regime credible? Hell yes it is. It happened to Syria's next door neighbor 23 months ago. Iraq was a nation run by the Baathist party. Only one other nation in the world is run by a Baathist party: Syria. Even if these two Baathist party's were connected in name only, any Arab conspiracy theorist can connect the dots, and modern Arabian culture loves conspiracy theory.
I'm making no predictions except this; within the next year, Syria will change one way or another.
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